Job Details
Job Location
In Business - Madison, WI
Position Type
Full Time
Education Level
4 Year Degree
Travel Percentage
Negligible
Job Category
Media - Journalism - Newspaper
Description
Overall Responsibilities: - Manage editorial department functions across all platforms: print, digital, and social media, with a focus on creating, producing, and maintaining high-quality journalism standards.
- Editor-in-chief role has community-facing responsibilities. These include:
- Participation and attendance in all IB Madison led public and private events
- Regular participation in other community and business centric events
- Forge and maintain cordial and professional relationships with local business leaders. These include public and privately held companies, non-profit organizations, government, and higher education institutions, as well as local chamber of commerce organizations.
Specific Responsibilities
- Develop short- and long-term direction and creative strategies for all editorial products, which promotes significant audience engagement, and growth across all platforms.
- Assign stories, photographs, photo captions and graphics — for print and digital assets — and edit this material for news value, accuracy, clarity and timeliness.
- Overall responsibility for daily e-newsletter publication.
- Check and/or review editorial material for libel, taste, style, accuracy, fairness and reader interest.
- Ensure that the Editorial staff are providing consistent and timely updates to the IB-Madison digital site, and associated social media accounts.
- Monitor regional and statewide business, government, and community news and associated issues relevant to our current and desired audience base.
- Assist with hiring, evaluating and training new employee owners across other departments.
- Manage editorial department budget. Monitor and report budget projections and variances.
- Maintain and process necessary records.
- Coordinate planning and production of editorial content, ensuring that standards of quality, editorial direction, and style are met for all products.
- Coach, train, and evaluate performance of editorial employee owners.
- Suggests and initiates programs and procedures to enhance products, efficiency and morale.
- Adheres to company and departmental policies.
- Adheres to standard practices and ethical standards of the industry.
- Positive representative of department, company and industry at all times.
- Attends and participates in corporate initiatives such as Great Game of Business, ESOP meetings, safety training, etc.
- Provides quality customer service via phone, email, and face-to-face interaction to both internal and external customers.
- Communicates information to the appropriate individuals and/or departments in a timely manner, such as news tips, source suggestions or real or potential customer-relations issues.
- In addition to editorial staff, Works in collaboration with all departments and staff.
- Other job-related duties as assigned.
Qualifications
Behavior: Commitment to quality and service. A leader and role model. A positive representative of the company, corporation and profession. A team player. Dresses appropriately for the job. Maintains a valid driver’s license.
Skills: Planning, management and organization, editing, writing, spelling and grammar. Ability to track and incorporate analytics into news placement decisions. Ability to learn and use new technology. Meets deadlines.
Knowledge: Bachelor’s degree or equivalent. Five years of media and/or publishing leadership experience.